Welcome to UW-Madison’s Pressbooks network. As of September 2018, this network is hosted by PressbooksEDU and administered by DoIT Academic Technology’s Learn@UW Madison service.
What is Pressbooks?
Pressbooks is simple book production software. You can use Pressbooks to publish textbooks, scholarly monographs, syllabi, fiction and non-fiction books, white papers, and more in multiple formats including:
- MOBI (for Kindle ebooks)
- EPUB (for all other ebookstores)
- designed PDF (for print-on-demand and digital distribution)
Pressbooks is used by educational institutions around the world as well as authors and publishers. The Pressbooks software is free and open-source and is built on top of the popular web-publishing tool WordPress.
For more information about Pressbooks, see here.